† ridgetn.
Obsolete. rare.
= ridgelet n.
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1791 W. Marshall Minutes in Rural Econ. W. Eng. (1796) II. 278 A wrested plow,..forcing up the ridgets.
1796 W. Marshall Rural Econ. W. Eng. I. 190 The rows or ridgets of soil and clods, forced up by the plow.
1817 W. Marshall Rev. Rep. to Board Agric. from Southern & Peninsula Dept. Eng. 441 By collecting the cultivated mold into ridgets, in the Tweedside manner, soils of a moderate depth, as four or five inches, will produce tolerable crops of turneps.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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